ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 107 
Surrounded by cultivated land, on Mr. Swayze's place, are two mounds, low 
and much spread, on one of which is a dwelling, while the other is occupied by a 
cemetery containing recent burials. Both these mounds, which had the appear- 
ance of having been domiciliary in character, though, at the time of our visit, they 
had lost all definite form, were dug into by us without success. | 
Near the mound in which аге the recent burials isa pool of water which marks 
the area whence material for the mound was taken. This pool is nearly surrounded 
by small, circular dwelling-sites. 
The entire plantation was carefully examined by us, with the result that a 
slight rise in the ground was noted about half a mile SE. from the landing, at the 
extreme SW. end of the plantation. This elevation, perhaps one foot in height, 
was of much darker soil than the surrounding plantation, and fragments of human 
bone lay in furrows made by recent plowing. 
Trial-holes at once exposed human remains, and additional digging showed 
burials in that part of the elevation which was in the plowed field (a part of it, 
not a large proportion seemingly, was in a cultivated garden beyond a fence) 
mainly to be confined to an area 20 feet by 30 feet in extent. This area was dug 
throughout by us at a depth of from a foot to 2 feet, where undisturbed clay was 
encountered. 
Human remains were found in great abundance, but in a poor state of preserva- 
tion, only two skulls, both broken, and several bones exhibiting pathological condi- 
tions being saved. ; 
In certain cases burial at full length on the back was noted; in others, the 
deposit of skulls and seattered bones. In one instance five skulls lay together. 
The yield of artifacts was disappointing. 
Placed on the chest of an extended skeleton was the base of an earthenware 
vessel, lying too deep to have lost its upper part through the agency of a plow. 
With scattered human remains, and near the surface, was another base of a 
vessel. 
Also with human bones were several bits of chert and part of a small disk of stone. 
An extended skeleton had on one side of the skull a pot of shell-tempered 
ware, in fragments, roughly decorated ; and on the other side a small undecorated 
bowl Near the pot were several broken pebbles of chert; within the bowl was a 
chert fragment. | 
Another extended skeleton had at ће neek sixteen shell beads, roughly barrel- 
shaped, each about one-third of an inch in length. | : 
A part of a short-necked bottle, the remainder apparently having been carried 
away by a plow, lay with fragmentary human remains. The decoration of this 
vessel, neatly executed, had been a scroll combination partly filled in with сговв- 
hatch lines. Тһе ware, though not shell-tempered, is excellent, and the outline of 
the vessel, when whole, must have been graceful. 
Near scattered bones were fragments of an undecorated vessel, and in two in- 
stances vessels crudely decorated, with globular bodies and flaring necks, lay near 
skulls. 
